Apr 28, 2011
“The Last Supper” reimagined as a party for Mexican wrestlers
This image, called “The Last Fiesta,” by Chris Parks is his “shout-out to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ with Jesus Christos and his 12 Luchador apostles…”
In the exhibit, the painting is on the back of 12 skateboard decks…
(via Boing Boing)
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I think this one borders on sacrilegious.
I agree… I love Nacho Libre as much as the next guy, but this is pretty ridiculous.
you pals av no idea of the links between mexican popular culture, wrestling and catholicism, do you?
ignorance is sacrilegious!
btw Nacho Libre is based on a true wrestler: Fray Tormenta…if ye consider that to be sacrilegious, then ask St John Paul II, who actually visited Fray Tormenta and said to him “I wish there were more Fray Tormentas in the world”…
However, Nacho Libre´s Story is just a bunch of crap made up to make ye laugh.
Or Sacrelicious.
Wait, a jesting mockery of a historically and racially inaccurate painting is sacrilegious?
You are correct on two points Chris. The Last Supper is both historically and racially inaccurate. Do your research. Most christian cultures display their representation of Jesus in their own way. The inhabitants in that region were middle-eastern, having darker skin and hair, not light brown and light eyes as usually depicted in western cultures. Unless a person in that time frame was of Roman decent, therefore, most assuredly, they were like the average middle-eastern at that time. The picture above maybe a jesting mockery, but of what, DaVinci’s 15th century depiction of an event that supposedly took place in Jerusalem 1400 some odd years earlier?
Yeah, I promise I’m not someone who gets offended by much at all, but I cringed at this. I think it’s a little too far.
That is just a beautiful work. If you are offended by this you are only showing your ignorance and your wee head
Yeah, I promise I am someone who gets offended by much, but I loved this. What a beautiful piece of art, full of aesthetics, humor, irony, and philosophy.
Bravo to the artist.